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HEADNOTE
the 2004 presidential election, New York, the quintessential blue state, gave Democrat John Kerry a 58 percent victory. More conservative-minded Virginia predictably gave Bush a 54 percent win. Yet an analysis of presidential returns from the areas most directly affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon tells a different story.
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HEADNOTEIn post-9/11 New York and Virginia, some voters jilted the party line in the 2004 election.
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According to congressional district-by-district data compiled by the political analysis firm Polidata for the 2006 Almanac of American Politics, to be published by National Journal Group in July, and The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan online newsletter of political analysis, Bush posted some of his greatest gains in some of the unlikeliest places-such as the districts closest to Ground Zero. And in Virginia, where most regions of the state voted solidly for the president, the districts closest to the Pentagon also moved in an unexpected direction-toward Kerry.
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